New Delhi, Dec. 13 -- In 1784, two white men joined forces to establish an English school in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu. John Sullivan was British representative at the court of the local rajah, while C.F. Schwartz was a missionary who had long worked in India. In promoting English education, they had, of course, specific goals. Sullivan lamented how British officials depended on "self-seeking dubashes" (interpreters) for business. If the "principal natives" took to English, however, these pesky middlemen could be eliminated. What attracted Schwartz, meanwhile, was that Western education offered to break the "obstinate attachment" Indians had to their religion, helping the "diffusion of Christianity". Higher-ups in London agreed. For them, Eng...